Power systems’ performance under high renewables’ penetration rates: a natural experiment due to the COVID-19 demand shock

Power systems’ performance under high renewables’ penetration rates: a natural experiment due to the COVID-19 demand shock

COVID-19 lockdowns make it possible to investigate the extent to which an unprecedented increase in renewables’ penetration may have brought unexpected limitations and vulnerabilities of current power systems to the surface. We empirically investigate how power systems in five European countries hav...

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Main Authors: Francesco Pietro Colelli, Daan Witkop, Enrica De Cian, Massimo Tavoni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
SARS-CoV-2
energy
renewable energy
climate change
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abfba2

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